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It's been a brutal week for science: -NIH training programs across career stages canceled -15% NSF indirect costs cap -Deep cuts proposed for federal science agencies in the President's FY26 budget request In response, @aimbe-official.bsky.social has released the 3 advocacy letters below 👇

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

New results! Neural subspaces are not specialized. They are like general workspaces. Recycling of prefrontal subspaces dynamically multiplexes information doi.org/10.1101/2025... #neuroscience

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Super happy #xCEBRA was presented as a peer-reviewed proceedings paper today at #AISTATS2025 by @stes.io et al! This extends #CEBRA with the ability to attribute specific inputs to latents over time 🙌 📝: openreview.net/forum?id=aGr... Code: github.com/AdaptiveMoto... Demo: cebra.ai/docs/demo_no...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I’ll bite. The average American has 3 friends….

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I’ll bite. The average American has 3 friends….

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Want to be (more) depressed? 👇

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Major team effort on phase-locked stim of human hippocampal theta rhythms finally out in the wild! W/ @jkragel.bsky.social @alikwidge.bsky.social and a cast of many. Thanks to the BRAIN Initiative for making it possible. rdcu.be/ej7VE

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

😭😭😭😭😭

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments

Multiplexed subspaces route neural activity across brain-wide networks www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

"Will US science survive Trump 2.0?" it's looking like a no

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

If you have a story to tell it, please tell it in all the forums that ask you too. Documenting this stuff is important. grist.org/climate/lost...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards. It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

submitted 10 days ago • 49 comments

Just sad. Tired and sad.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Literally every woman I know with a k99/r00 is going to lose their funding because NIH is cancelling their funding mechanism. Every single one. Read that again.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Literally every woman I know with a k99/r00 is going to lose their funding because NIH is cancelling their funding mechanism. Every single one. Read that again.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

defended 6 years ago today! man, time flies

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I made a timeline of all the actions in Trump's (almost) first 100 days that have upended science and health. It was staggering to me to see it all in one place, even though I reported on many on these events. www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/t...

submitted 13 days ago • 39 comments

sighhhhh

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Delighted to see our new collaboration on ecological neuroscience 🧩🌿🧠 announced today! A huge ❤️🙏🏼 to @simonsfoundation.org I’m so excited by this theory-driven question. It’s core to our research on adaptive intelligence & sensorimotor systems 🙌 #SCENE www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

Excited to share our new study: "Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses" by @andreamunozz.bsky.social, @aaron-douglas.bsky.social & team at @tcddublin.bsky.social, in collaboration with @lydialynch.bsky.social & @drchristineannd.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

The Trump administration is "willing to not just slash and burn research that challenges their political ideology but to replace it with shoddy studies designed to support their goals, under the guise of scientific legitimacy," Katherine J. Wu writes.

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Check out our new paper out today in PNAS: “40 Hz sensory stimulation enhances CA3-CA1 coordination and prospective coding during navigation in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease”. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Led by Abigail Paulson with Lu Zhang and Ashley Prichard @amprichard.bsky.social

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

💯. US science is so powerful because public dollars are spent, by the government, on fundamental research that the private sector will not support. If NIH goes away, US biomedical science will collapse.

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

In terminating hundreds of NIH grants, the Trump administration dumped years of investment down the drain. In my latest @opinion.bloomberg.com column, we analyzed the cancelled projects & talked to scientists to understand just how much the public loses out. It's a lot: tinyurl.com/bdey86su

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

Northwestern has a great new website explaining why the federally-funded research we do benefits everybody: www.northwestern.edu/research-nu/...

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

My lab @kinshiplab.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc 🚨 with Sept start date Preference for in-vivo ephys / circuits experience / interest in applying quantitative methods to natural social behaviour. Funding & visa fees for 1-yr with possible extension. Send me your CV & visit kinshiplab.org

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

the plan is to end American science research all of it, no exceptions other countries simply will not be able to fill the gaps here, this is just a shocking devastation of human scientific progress as a whole

submitted 21 days ago • 45 comments

Folding 27 NIH institutes and centers down into 8, which is even worse than the rumored plan for 15, is catastrophic for American biomedical research. Completely insane.

submitted 21 days ago • 42 comments

Obviously there is plenty bad shit but this just bums me out so much, NIH was built over more than a century, there is history and reasoning and scientific logic behind the way it is structured and how it functions, and a few daft fuckheads are demolishing it over the course of a few months.

submitted 21 days ago • 12 comments

NIH leadership is systematically purging women and minorities from its boards of scientific counselors. The odds of this being random are 1 in 300 wapo.st/4jtCPdw

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

40% cut to science funding. This is going to decimate us.

submitted 21 days ago • 11 comments

I wrote a little digest + tribute to an article that shaped my career: Sadtler et al Neural constraints on learning! (and also managed to sneak in a shout out to another one) Read for free here: rdcu.be/eg5To Thanks to the editors for the invite and input!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

A postdoc in my lab contacted a fellow scientist to get some advice and was told that, because he's currently working on the topic, he "can't give away all his secrets." I find this extremely lame, and yet I keep encountering it. Science is not a zero-sum game!!

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

submitted 21 days ago • 666 comments

Thrilled to see this part of my PhD work with @rcbagot.bsky.social now out in @natcomms.nature.com! (1/14) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

I just met with the Vice President of El Salvador as we fight for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I’m speaking to the press now with the latest on our efforts. Tune in here:

submitted 21 days ago • 1005 comments

How does our brain predict the future? Our review of predictive processing + research program is now on arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2504.09614 50+ neuroscientists distributed across the world worked together to create this unique community project.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

MIT following Harvard's lead here

submitted 23 days ago • 594 comments

Harvard’s Decision to Resist Trump Is ‘of Momentous Significance’ “This should be the turning point in the president’s rampage against American institutions.” #GiftLink www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

Welcome to the resistance deep sigh Harvard University

submitted 23 days ago • 24 comments